Society does owe him, but bancruptsey is just another way the game gets you hooked. You will never get out of debt unless you take responsibilty and steal some shit and pawn it in.

No offense but the only way to get a job with a theatre degree is to teach......Theatre.

[QUOTE=Demonpenz;6168184]Society does owe him, but bancruptsey is just another way the game gets you hooked. You will never get out of debt unless you take responsibilty and steal some shit and pawn it in.[/QUOTE]

ROFL

Well, I should have known better. I didn't have the money, and thought I was going to be a rockstar (not literally) in a few years. Stupid. But I def agree that the credit card companies have dicked me with interest rates and penalties. I paid them for years without ever using it and never even made a dent. As for holding on to the stuff. The stuff is all gone. I sold some of the bigger items to pay for my move and some stuff I had to pay off when I came home from college. Had to sell stuff quick and cheap too. (instruments and electronics). As for asking for help... I guess that's what bankruptcy is for. And I certainly wouldn't be the first. But it's embarrassing to have gotten so far behind the 8ball. My debt is quickly going from nuisance, to problem and now I'm afraid it's going to wind up being a "gateway to a shitty rest of my life" if I don't act on it now.

have you ever thought about selling drugs?

Most theatre majors have two hands and two feet, which means they can find work somewhere.

The first step through that gate will be a bankruptcy.

Well, it's definitely going to suck for a while... but you'll get through it.

Alot of my friends needed money to get their gigs going to by decent guitars etc, and then the bars they were playing at wouldn't pay them shit. Well you could see that they weren't going to make their money back playing at bars. Their only choice was to start selling weed and picking up a few more gigs on the side. It was hard work, and they even had to swallow their pride and play mustang sally instead of their original songs, but it seems like they are doing better now. You just need to play more gigs.

he paid for his degree, he is above working labor jobs for sure.

Shooting Heroin has gotten me through some rough times. Keep your chin up!

And, sometimes... when life has you by the balls (by your own doing) you have to buckle down, set your priorities correctly and focus on a more consistently paying line of work.

So your advice is for me to NOT do it, huh? Care to elaborate?

This is the kind of thing I was hoping to get out of this thread. (besides getting flamed a bit by the crowd)

It used to be that bankruptcy was on your credit for 10 years. Don't know if that is still the case.

I am not sure that at age 30, doing something that will cause no one to loan you a cent until you are 40 is a good solution. No cars (unless you want to pay a rate that should be criminal), no buying a home, in some cases getting rejected for rental housing, paying more for all forms of insurance. The cure is worse than the disease, and it will last longer than the suffering would in actually paying the debt off (which is how it should be).

I would think it would be much better to just live at home and work two jobs for the foreseeable future to start digging out. Waiting tables, tending a bar, whatever.

I'm currently working a "labor job," thank you very much. :)